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15-07-2026
TEHRAN/ DOHA: Iran claims attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Qatar as UAE also reports intercepting Iranian missiles and drone threats.
The attacks came after the US announced a third round of strikes on Iran this week, accusing it of attacking a Cyprus-flagged container ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian state media say explosions were heard in the port cities of Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Chabahar, Bandar-e Deyr, Jask and Asaluyeh
The hostilities come after Iran’s IRGC declared the Strait of Hormuz temporarily closed and said it had fired a warning shot at a ship attempting to transit through what it called an unapproved route.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei pledges to avenge the killing of his father, Ali Khamenei, by US and Israeli forces, saying “revenge is the will of our nation”.
Iran claims Gulf nations are ‘providing help to the Americans’
This is what happens every time Iran is attacked by the Americans.
Iran has made sure all the time that it is going to retaliate against what it claims to be the bases from which attacks on Iranian soil are waged.
They are criticizing Arab countries, particularly in the Gulf region, saying they are providing help to the Americans, and the Iranians are not attacking civilians or civilian areas in the Gulf countries, but they are attacking the source of the attacks that come against Iranian soil.
This is a dynamic that has been going on for some time, and Iran is maintaining it and it is all related for now to the Strait of Hormuz, because Iran wants to maintain its control over the Strait of Hormuz, and it has declared it closed.
They are saying that any violation, any ships that don’t coordinate with the Iranians and try (independently) to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, it means they have violated the memorandum of understanding, and it means that they are working against the interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Iran has to retaliate and prevent that situation.
US military says it struck 140 targets in Iran
The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) says it has finished a third round of strikes on Iran this week, “holding Iranian forces accountable” for their recent attack on a Cyprus-flagged ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
CENTCOM said it hit about 140 military targets, “included Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, ammunition storage facilities, communication networks, and coastal surveillance locations”.
It added that more than 300 targets were stuck over the course of three nights throughout the week “to degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels freely transiting the strait.”
CENTCOM also said US forces have helped more than 800 commercial vessels, with cargo including 400 million barrels of oil, successfully transit the Strait since early May.
The IRGC says it has hit and stopped a second “offending vessel” in the Strait of Hormuz.
It warned that the continuation of what it called US-Israeli “aggressions” would result in “even more devastating” responses.
The IRGC has issued a new statement saying it also targeted the airbase at Qatar’s Al Udeid with ballistic missiles.
It claimed it destroyed a fighter aircraft maintenance and repair centre, as well as a command-and-control centre at the base.
Qatar’s Ministry of Defence, however, said earlier that it intercepted a missile attack targeting Qatari territory. (Int’l News Desk)
